Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 28, 2021

Gotta love the perfesser’s ’59 DeSoto. ;-)

As a kid I worked at a gas station. The boss did that unless it was a paying customer.

The directions will send them on a huge circular route using up their gas and leading them back to the garage.

You can get there from here ?

It looks like they are entering the ‘Twilight Zone’. (There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.)

There are some places that get such bad internet reviews that they rename the place [or bought by some other corporation]. On marathon weekend I was asked about a local hotel’s location by its new name, but I only remembered it as the old name. Fortunately the runner was sure my directions were wrong.

They didn’t dual for the information, break out the banjo.

No joke. I just love when people give directions like “go down that street and turn left at where the old Shell station used to be…” but this isn’t a modern thing, either. I once looked up the incorporation papers for a pioneer wagon road, and the survey notes read like “from the northwest corner of the Francis barn, one hundred and fifty rods south westerly to the large rock. Then due south six hundred chains to the forked chestnut tree…” and so on, a true masterpiece of misdirection.

Wizard of Oz effect?

Unfortunately, ‘that guy’ was the colorist and he was looking for directions to the art supplies store because he had run out of ink.

For some reason, I see Fauci sitting on that porch laughing at all of us.

I worked in a gas station pre-self service. If someone pulled up to the pumps in the rain and only asked directions, they were in for a ride. I bet some are still lost.

I remember walking around San Francisco and eventually noticing the “sport” of misguiding tourists seemed popular with young people.

Mudd said,

That’s what Joe used to say,as a opening line and he was right too. “Ya can’t get there from here”. ayupp. A kinda down east phrase. My previous school or Alma mater. BA

Staying for some days in a small town just outside Oakland, CA, I asked a gas attendant about restaurants close by. He had no clue as he lived just over 20 miles away and only worked there. Walmart clerk and a grocery clerk—same story. Only local eateries I found were all chain franchises. Just a weird ten days for me.

I don’t say this enough – I love the art in this comic. I especially love Cosmo’s desk. Yeah, I know, that’s not in this comic, but this one is detailed enough without it.

And the poor guy won’t even be able to find his way back to Irv’s to give him an opinion.

After meeting a couple guys like this as a teenager, I got maps and became good at reading them.

It’s about 2, 3 or 4 miles down past where the Smith’s barn burned down a while back. You can’t help but miss it.